Search results for ‘Benefits’
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Lockdown life even harder for those barred from benefits
Asylum seekers and people on student visas or spousal visas have no access to public funds, which is a condition of their residency.
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More than 6.6 million Americans register for unemployment benefits in one week
In the United States, a further 6.6 million people have registered for unemployment benefit in the past week.
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Mariella Frostrup on HRT: ‘Benefits outweigh detriment’:
Broadcaster Mariella Frostrup joins the programme from Somerset. She shared her own experience of menopause and hormone replacement therapy in a documentary last year.
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FactCheck: Esther McVey’s claim about ‘generous’ UK disability benefits
The Conservative leadership hopeful said the UK is “one of the most generous countries” for disability benefits.
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Woman who lost her legs calls on government to rethink benefits assessment
Latest figures show more than two thirds of people who appeal a decision finding them fit for work have that decision overturned at tribunal, but the government insist the system is working well for most people.
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UN probes UK poverty amid benefits shake-up
Being poor and on benefits in the UK can mean surviving on very little money – now the United Nations rapporteur on poverty has come to the country to investigate just how severe a problem it is.
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Living with disability and denied benefits, a former civil servant speaks out
A former senior civil servant has said that assessments for disability benefits need to be completely overhauled. Andrew McDonald, who now chairs the disability charity Scope, has experienced the process first hand – despite having Parkinson’s and terminal prostate cancer he was deemed not eligible for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). He said he was “shocked”…
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Tenants on housing benefits turned away by letting agents
Tenants on housing benefits are being turned away by letting agents, according to an undercover investigation, which has found six letting agents have refused to let properties to people on benefits, even if they could afford the rent. Shelter and the National Housing Federation investigated 149 branches around the country, calling out major letting chains for…
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Disability payments: How two women are fighting for their benefits
Two disabled women were told to turn up for an appointment to assess their benefits. But when they arrived, they say they could not access the building as there were no wheelchair ramps.
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Desperate disability benefits applicants ‘being denied extra support’, amid criticism of assessment system
Lawyers helping sick and disabled people fight benefit claims at tribunal have accused the government of creating a “hostile environment” where claimants are “just not believed.”
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Is Britain cashing in on the benefits of Jamaican culture?
Hundreds of Jamaicans were among those to arrive on the Empire Windrush 70 years ago. But while the political controversy over the Windrush generation has raged, the Caribbean island is at the heart of another storm about the way cultural exports are treated by Britain and the rest of the world. From music to food,…
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Benefits contractors criticised by MPs
The three private contractors who assess people for disability benefits have been accused of failing to meet the government’s own quality standards, according to a damning report by MPs. They say failures in the process have led to “untenable human costs” to claimants, as well as undermining trust in the system. Disability groups said the…
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Keir Starmer: ‘Benefits of the single market are crucial’
Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer discusses whether staying in the single market should be a long-term option for Labour.
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Benefits cap: How single parent families are affected
68,000 households have had their benefits cut for the first time, losing around £50 a week under a government cap designed to slash the welfare bill. And the latest figures show that the cuts are still hitting thousands of single parents with children under two. That’s despite a high court ruling back in June that…
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More single parents hit by the benefits cap, but the High Court says it’s unlawful.
The government’s benefit cap policy was ruled to be unlawful in June. But new figures show more single parents are subject to the cap than before. FactCheck investigates.
